Word: guess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ground to let loose pent-up speculative urges. It's a problem of literally earth-shattering import, it's endlessly debatable, and best of all it's completely hypothetical. No one every fought and nuclear war, or even came all that close to fighting one, so experts can only guess and guess again about the issue. And once you've mastered the lingo of kilotonnage and force posture, there is little difference between the nuclear amateur and the nuclear expert. It's a game anyone with a typewriter can play...
...forget that most of the world does not come anywhere near the standard of living of even the lower levels of American society. For the people whom Laurie Grossman observed, American is truly a land of opportunity, a better place to live that the country they left behind. My guess is that they appreciate our country more than she does...
...beginning of Radio Days a burglar picks up the phone in the midst of robbing the Marty Needleman residence and answers the questions put to him by the cheery host of Guess That Tune. With a little help from his partner, he wins a truckful of major appliances for his victims. We may imagine their despair over returning to a ransacked home. But we are privy to their nonplussed elation the next morning when the windfall lands on their doorstep. It might be said that they experienced the "miracle of radio" (as it was known in the innocent...
...sighs a little. "My life is one big 'being around.' Rehearsing, fund raising, administering a $21.5 million budget. I don't like the fact that I've aged ten years in two, that I have no private life. But I believe in all this." He pauses and adds, "I guess I've decided to spend my life here...
...WELL, I guess this is goodbye." the tube said as he hopped out the passenger door and headed for his version of Valhalla...